"What can you tell me?"
[That's what we say to each other when we get home from work.]
K sat there a moment, thinking.
"Nothing," he said. "Not one thing."
"Yeah," I returned. "You've been working too hard and so have I."
"Ack! We're not even interesting anymore!" he cried. "What did we used to do that made us interesting?"
I drew a blank.
"Maybe we were never really very interesting," I said.
[Oh, The Joys - now with more Optimism!]
"Okay," he said, "what did we do that made us think we were interesting?"
My thoughts wandered back to the time when he and I got to know each other.
"You volunteered for Habitat, you played guitar... you had those index cards with vocabulary words on them... that was interesting."
"But I don't do any of those things anymore," he lamented.
[He was awfully cute with his index cards... but you should have seen him framing a Habitat house with his sweaty t-shirt clinging to his rippling... ]
[YOWZA!]
After the kids went to bed, we headed for our computers.
[Because we are smokin' hot like that.]
K kept interrupting me to show me tricks to enhance the performance of Microsoft Excel.
[Yes, practicing building an amortization table. You heard that right.]"What are you working on?" I finally asked him.
"I'm practicing building an amortization table," he told me.
"Come see," he said. "Let me show you."And do you know what I said?
"Baby, you're getting more interesting all the time."
15 comments:
that is just WILD! I tell ya!
Oh, Jeebus, I so identify--and find myself gasping that other couples greet themselves as my husband and I do. I kind of feel like I go out into the world and gather gossip, just so I have something to report.
Marriage has made me meaner. That's my point.
Are we talking about the same Habitat that I know, over-priced designer furnature that thinks its uber-hip? Volunteered?
Oh, you crazy kids! My husband would totally try to show me an amortization table - he's an accountant, what can I say?
We always said 'Tell me a story' For a couple years now Gapetto's got nuthin' Ah, but an amortization table that's hawt!
Oooh. An Amor-ti-za-tion Table! The things two people can do on one of those!!
Ha! My word verification is fearingu!
Vocabulary flash cards = HOT
Just like us.
That's hot.
How romantic!
Is he in a sweaty t-shirt while practicing those tables?
Maybe you guys could start speaking racoon to each other.
Did you hold hands while looking at excel?
Hilarious! I hear ya!
oooo, baby, talk calculus to me! hahahah!
We used to read aloud to each other. We don't do that anymore, but he does try to show me his progress on Fear II.
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